School vegan clubs: getting started and club activities

Getting a vegan club started in your school

To help teachers establish a vegan club in their high school, we have prepared a number of documents to assist in the process:

• Creating a vegan club at school with Vegan Australia: Covers how starting a vegan club can make a meaningful impact to the students and school and details the steps to establish a vegan club.
• Proposal to school administrators to establish a vegan club: A sample letter from teachers to the school administration requesting approval to establish a student vegan club.
• Proposal to the student council to support the vegan club: A sample letter from teachers to the school student council asking them to support the initiative.
• Suggested names for vegan-animal rights clubs

Vegan club activities

Once the vegan club is set up and running, click on the links below to download activities that will inspire students to learn more about veganism and how to protect the rights of animals. You can also download a summary of all the club activities.

(1) Interactive activities

• 1. Animal-themed quizzes
• 2. Animal rights scavenger hunt
• 3. Rescue story read-aloud sessions
• 4. 'Guess the species' challenge
• 5. Animal hero awards
• 6. Interactive polls and surveys

(2) Educational and visual engagement

• 7. Watching animal rights documentaries and rescue videos
• 8. In-person sanctuary tours
• 9. Book and article discussions
• 10. Themed movie afternoons
• 11. Educational workshops
• 12. Documentary film-making projects
• 13. Show-and-tell with rescue stories

(3) Hands-on involvement

• 14. Fundraising for rescues
• 15. Craft workshops for sanctuaries
• 16. Adopt-an-animal sponsorship
• 17. Vegan cooking classes
• 18. Volunteering days at local shelters or sanctuaries
• 19. Gardening projects
• 20. Animal advocacy art projects

(4) Community and campaigning

• 21. Letter-writing campaigns
• 22. Social media challenges
• 23. Animal rights poetry and essay competitions
• 24. Start a student-run rescue newsletter
• 25. Photo and poster competitions
• 26. DIY 'adopt me' flyers for shelters

(5) Interactive discussions

• 27. Role-playing debates
• 28. 'My Favourite Animal' speeches
• 29. Animal rights guest panels
• 30. 'Animal Rescue News' meetings
• 31. Create a companion animal or rescue animal feature wall

(6) Advocacy projects

• 32. Animal-friendly merchandise
• 33. Write letters to rescue workers
• 34. Create animal rights bulletin boards
• 35. Propose an 'Animal Rights Week' at school

(7) Additional activities

• 36. Music challenge: compose songs or create animal-themed music
• 37. A.I. challenge: Use artificial intelligence to advocate for animals
• 38. Virtual 'Meet an Animal' sessions
• 39. Animal advocacy escape room
• 40. DIY bird feeder or insect house workshop
• 41. Empathetic writing prompts
• 42. Student-led animal rights podcast
• 43. Create animal rights TikTok videos or reels
• 44. Wildlife photography challenge
• 45. Interactive maps of animal sanctuaries and rescues
• 46. "Did You Know?" animal rights fact posters
• 47. Host an 'Animal Advocacy Art Showcase' to spread awareness